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thinking thursday.

(My dog, Blue. He's thinking.) I've been missing Thinking Thursday. You? Let's think again. Every Thursday, at the very least. [mind]   James Franco gives off an interesting vibe in this interview. Interesting in a slightly paranoid way? Not sure how to describe it.  Do iPads cause religious experiences? On …

project love.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #10: To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, that is genius. – Ralph …

intention, and patterns.

(Art by Lisa Smith) I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #9: The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of …

we know. and then we know more.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #7: There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. – Ralph Waldo Emerson What would you …

Mr Brilliant is, above all, Mr Daddy.

My husband John has been a daddy for 19 years now. Here are just a few of the many reasons he is such a fantastic dad: This is where it all began. Little Emma in strong arms. He protects and supports us.       When Maggie the miniscule dwarf …

Be 100% in.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #6: Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson If you had one week left to live, would you still be doing what …

be bold.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #7: Our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion, we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlour soldiers. We shun the rugged battle …

going back.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #5: If we live truly, we shall see truly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Not everyone wants to travel the world, but most people can identify at least one …

what would love do?

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #4: That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. Where is the master who could have taught Shakespeare? Where is the master who …

Mine is not to exhibit my beliefs, but to inhabit them.

I am participating in #Trust30, an online initiative and 30-day writing challenge that encourages you to look within and trust yourself. Prompt #3: It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is …